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21) Poirot investigates

Author

Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976

Earliest Publication Date

1985

Summary

The very first collection of superb short stories featuring Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings? First there was the mystery of the film star and the diamond? then came the ?suicide? that was murder? the mystery of the absurdly cheap flat? a suspicious death in a locked gun-room? a million dollar bond robbery? the curse of a pharaoh?s tomb? a jewel robbery by the sea? the abduction of a Prime Minister? the disappearance of a banker? a phone call...

22) Postern of fate

Author

Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976

Earliest Publication Date

1973

Summary

Tommy and Tuppence Beresford return in Agatha Christie?s classic Postern of Fate, to investigate a deadly poisoning sixty years after the fact. Tommy and Tuppence Beresford have just become the proud owners of an old house in an English village. Along with the property, they have inherited some worthless bric-a-brac, including a collection of antique books. While rustling through a copy of The Black Arrow, Tuppence comes upon a series of apparently...

23) Sad cypress

Author

Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976

Earliest Publication Date

1982

Summary

Hercule Poirot is summoned when a young woman is accused of murdering her wealthy aunt's house companion.

24) Sparkling cyanide

Author

Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976

Earliest Publication Date

1992

Summary

A year after Rosemary's death, six people, her long-suffering husband, her devoted secretary, her lovers, and a betrayed wife, think about her murder, but only one is responsible for her death.

25) Spider's web

Author

Osborne, Charles, 1927-2017

Earliest Publication Date

2000

Summary

Clarissa, the second wife of Henry Hailsham Brown, is adept at spinning tales of adventure for their bored diplomatic circle. When a murder takes place in her drawing room she finds live drama much harder to cope with, especially as she suspects the murderer might be her young stepdaughter Pippa. Worse still, the victim is the man who broke up Henry's first marriage. Moreover Henry will be arriving shortly with a V.I.P. who might take a dim view of...

26) Striding folly

Author

Sayers, Dorothy L. (Dorothy Leigh), 1893-1957

Earliest Publication Date

2002

Summary

Three perplexing puzzles—and three inimitable Wimsey solutions—told with wit, humor, and suspense. Narrator Ian Carmichael, the quintessential Lord Peter, provides great entertainment with his talented performance of these three stories. In "Striding Folly," a frightening dream provides a haunting premonition. A house numbered thirteen is in a street of even numbers, and a dead man was never alive in "The Haunted Policeman." And "Talboys"

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27) Taken at the flood

Author

Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976

Earliest Publication Date

1984

Summary

A few weeks after marrying an attractive widow, Gordon Cloade is tragically killed by a bomb blast in the London blitz. Overnight, the former Mrs. Underhay finds herself in sole possession of the Cloade family fortune. Shortly afterward, Hercule Porot receives a visit from the dead man's sister-in-law who claims she has been warned by "spirits" that Mrs. Underhay's first husband is still alive. Porot has his suspicions when he is asked to find a missin...

28) The A.B.C. murders

Author

Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976

Earliest Publication Date

1935

Summary

Recognized as one of Christie's cleverest mysteries in the highly popular Poirot series. It is sure to be a success with her many avid fans. A serial killer is on the loose, murdering his victims in alphabetical order, leaving an ABC Railway Guide beside each body ... and also playing a game with Hercule Poirot, alerting him in advance to the location of the murders, but Poirot always arrives too late. Intrigued by the psychopath's mind and methodology,...

29) The adventure of the Christmas pudding: &, the mystery of the Spanish chest

Author

Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976

Earliest Publication Date

2001

30) The Big four

Author

Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976

Earliest Publication Date

1984

Summary

Number One was the greatest criminal brain of all time; Number Two was a multi-millionaire; Number Three was a beautiful Frenchwoman; and Number Four was "the destroyer," the ruthless murderer with a genius for disguise, whose business it was to remove those who interfered with his masters plans. These four, working together, aimed at establishing world dominance. Hercule Poirot was preparing for a voyage to South America when an uninvited guest,...

31) The black mountain

Author

Stout, Rex, 1886-1975

Earliest Publication Date

1995

Summary

When Marko Vukcic, one of Nero Wolfe's closest friends, is gunned down in cold blood, the great detective takes it personally, pledging to do everything in his considerable power to bring the killer to justice. But Wolfe's reckless vow draws him to the most lethal case of his career, propelling the portly P.I. and his faithful factotum, Archie Goodwin, four thousand miles across the ocean to the hazardous mountains of Montenegro. Communist cutthroats...

32) The body in the library

Author

Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976

Earliest Publication Date

1970

Summary

It's seven in the morning. The Bantrys wake to find the body of a young woman in their library. She is wearing an evening dress and heavy makeup, which is now smeared across her cheeks. But who is she? How did she get there? And what is the connection with another dead girl, whose charred remains are later discovered in an abandoned quarry? The respectable Bantrys invite Miss Marple into their home to investigate. Amid rumors of scandal, she baits...

33) The Listerdale mystery and eleven other stories

Author

Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976

Earliest Publication Date

2006

34) The Maltese falcon

Author

Hammett, Dashiell, 1894-1961

Earliest Publication Date

1929

Summary

In San Francisco in 1928, Sam Spade searches for a priceless statuette. He finds himself torn between loyalty to his murdered partner and an opportunity for personal gain.

35) The man in the brown suit

Author

Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976

Earliest Publication Date

1988

Summary

First published in 1924, "The Man in the Brown Suit" is a thrilling adventure and murder mystery by Agatha Christie. The protagonist is Anne Beddingfield, the orphaned daughter of a famous archaeologist, who goes to live with her father's solicitor and his wife in London. Anne is searching for an adventure and something exciting to occupy her time when she is witness to the sudden death of a man at Hyde Park Corner tube station when the man falls...

36) The murder of Roger Ackroyd

Author

Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976

Earliest Publication Date

1926

Summary

One of Agatha Christie's most famous novels, featuring her beloved detective Hercule Poirot--and her most surprising twist.The story that made Agatha Christie famous ends with one of her most dramatic twists. The villagers of King's Abbot are shocked when a wealthy local widow commits suicide and the very next day her fiancé, Roger Ackroyd, is stabbed to death. Dr. James Sheppard, the local physician, discovers the body of his friend and narrates...

37) The mystery of the blue train

Author

Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976

Earliest Publication Date

1928

Summary

"When the luxurious Blue Train arrives at Nice, a guard attempts to wake serene Ruth Kettering from her slumbers. But she will never wake again--for a heavy blow has killed her, disfiguring her features almost beyond recognition. What is more, her precious rubies are missing. The prime suspect is Ruth's estranged husband, Derek. Yet Hercule Poirot is not convinced, so he stages an eerie reenactment of the journey, complete with the murderer on board"--Page...

38) The protaege

Author

Frey, Stephen W

Earliest Publication Date

2006

39) The secret adversary

Author

Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976

Earliest Publication Date

1967

Summary

In 1919, young couple Tommy Beresford and Tuppence Cowley form a partnership, hiring themselves out as "young adventurers". Their first case, however, is more of an adventure than they expect--working to find documents that, if they were known to the general public, would fuel a communist revolution in Britain. Undercover agents Tommy and Tuppence know that Jane Finn was carrying top secret documents when she disappeared five years ago. What they...

40) The thin man

Author

Hammett, Dashiell, 1894-1961

Earliest Publication Date

1992

Summary

Dashiell Hammett's classic The Thin Man introduced the world to Nick and Nora Charles, further made famous by the popular Thin Man films. With a new introduction by Denise Mina.
Nick Charles seems to find trouble wherever he goes. He thinks his sleuthing days are behind him when Julia Wolf, a former acquaintance, turns up dead. Nick—thanks to some persuasion from his enchanting wife, Nora—finds himself falling back into...

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